Presentation 6: Sharing your knowledge and experience

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Presentation 6Sharing your knowledge and
experience
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Why share with others?

• Lack of important scientific information on
  worker health and safety specific to
  nanomaterials exposure very little information
  on impacts on human health
• Need to empower health and safety representatives
  in engaging with employers worker protection,
  worker participation, business decisions, risk
  assessment
• Need for dialogue between employers, employees,
  regulators, civil society, research and design
  communities safe by design (design out
  hazardous substances)

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What information to share?

• Key information that will help build a better
  application of occupational health and safety
• Where are nanomaterials used? (which sectors,
  companies, uses)
• Information on how things worked well or not well
  in introducing (or not) nanomaterials in your
  workplace what questions did you ask your
  employer? What information did you request? What
  response/information did you get? What employee
  health surveillance has been introduced in your
  company?
• Information to help with risk assessment
  (exposure activities, times) what information
  has come from the risk assessment done in your
  company?

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Make sure that there is an official corporate
record of the questions asked about worker health
and safety in general risk assessment
activities, not just on nanomaterials
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Who to share information with?

• In your company
• Your fellow workers and colleagues
• Health and safety representative/s
• Senior management
• In your sector
• Sectoral trade union health and safety staff
• Local/regional health and safety staff
• In your country
• National trade union federation
• At European level
• European Works Councils
• European Trade Union Institute health and safety
  team (emails to nano_at_etui.org)

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